[bug] On Android I see & instead of &( and symbol)

In this picture you can see it in the title of the one post. I have noticed itnin comments sections as well.

I see this nearly daily.

I remember seeing a different code on comments as well. It was something like  

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breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Reading that headline while on Android is hilarious.

"On Android I see & instead of &..."

Thank you for the giggle.

breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Except, somehow, in the comments section, it comes out right! Will our torture never end?!

kuro_neko@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Client side I'm searching for this string and replacing it, will probably have to extend it to post titles.

SheeEttin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

That's probably not ideal. I'd just wait until it's fixed in Lemmy. Otherwise, if I want to write out the character entity string, I can't. Or worse, what I write will look different to different people. That would just be a mess.

OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I've read somewhere along the way that this is a Lemmy issue, not an app issue. I believe it's being addressed by the devs.

Papercrane@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y

Good to know, I'm on liftoff and I see it too. I just thought that the app wasn't bug free

SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

You are not alone.

While a little annoying, they are what are known as HTML entities: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

& is used for ampersand (the and symbol, &) and   is for non breaking space (a line break without a space between lines/paragraphs). The link I posted lists a lot of them.

Edit: & and & come out the same way in the comments! ಠ⁠⁠೧ಠ